Articles by

Geoff Graham

Pixel art is one of those lost art forms that have been overshadowed by super crisp, high resolutions images. I stumbled on some pixel art while surfing around CodePen and it reminded me how awesome it is.

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It was way back in 2008 that Chris shared his "Ah-ha!" moment when working with CSS. You know, that metaphorical lightbulb that ignites when you go from not knowing what the heck CSS is to suddenly having a baseline for understanding how it works.

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If you're as old as me, you might remember watching Let's Make a Deal on the old television airwaves. The show is apparently still on these days in a new format, but the original always stuck out to me because of one simple thing: the reveal.

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Icons. They're popular. They help complement content (most of the time). And yet they can be a pain in the neck.

Once you've decided on a format (SVG or icon font?) and designed the set, there are still other considerations, many of which pop up while you're coding.

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There are plenty of form building services, plugins, and frameworks in the wild that make the tedious task of form design and development much easier. We're going to look at some of those in this post.

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I wrote a post last summer where I identified myself as a web designer in light of my experience in front-end web development. The response was pretty overwhelming and has stuck with me ever since.

What stuck with me most is how relative job descriptions are in web development. I might be a web designer standing next to one person, but a web developer standing next to someone else. Creating exact labels (and job descriptions, for that matter) is an inexact science. When it comes to designing, building, and maintaining websites, it's hard to pin down labels, despite all our best efforts to do it.

What if we were able to properly categorize and label what we do into neat buckets?

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CSS can control the appearance of a cursor. There are a ton of options available to us and we've covered them pretty thoroughly in the ol' Almanac here on CSS-Tricks.

Still, it's easy to overlook cursors and their impact on the user experience of our sites. Remember when we learned ::selection was a thing and every site started using it to personalize the background color of text selections? Customizing cursors is just as easy and adds that extra bit of understated flourish when used correctly.

In this post I'll cover two ways I think controlling the cursor in CSS an improve user experience.

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